Quantum Weirdness To Meaninglessness

Quantum Weirdness To Meaninglessness
Physicists: your days are numbered. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.Owen Maroney worries that physicists have spent the better part of a century engaging in fraud.

It’s a mess!
Ever since they invented quantum theory in the early 1900s, explains Maroney, who is himself a physicist at the University of Oxford, UK, they have been talking about how strange it is — how it allows particles and atoms to move in many directions at once, for example, or to spin clockwise and anticlockwise simultaneously. But talk is not proof, says Maroney. “If we tell the public that quantum theory is weird, we better go out and test that’s actually true,” he says. “Otherwise we’re not doing science, we’re just explaining some funny squiggles on a blackboard.”